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Black dogs.
ON A QUIET DAY in April 1968, Peter Haran woke early in his tent at the Australian base at Nui Dat, and went to shave and shower. His shaving mirror hung from a tree. The face in the mirror had hollow, sunken cheeks. The eyes were ringed with shadows. Haran looked like a sick man of fifty, felt chronically fatigued, and could barely rouse himself to walk to the shower and lift the bucket of water. He had just turned twenty.
Haran had joined the army as a regular soldier in 1966, at the age of eighteen, and trained as a dog handler in a combat tracking team. "I was dragged through the Vietnam War on the end of a 20-foot clog leash," he writes. "I ... spent the war ...
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...men his age. He spent five years as a Viet Cong prisoner, escaping in 1968, and he...there shortly after his escape from the Viet Cong, said the slain military adviser first...the Green Berets. Captured in 1963 by Viet Cong while on patrol with a South Vietnamese...
- A RED CARPET, NOT CARPET-BOMBING ONE VIET CONG MIG LANDS AT ALBANY CO....
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 19, 1990 700+ words
...plane using the registration number One Viet Cong landed at Albany County Airport Tuesday...States or given to the government by a Viet Cong defector. Once the Air Force finished...McCulloch said his registration number, One Viet Cong, usually gets a few laughs from air...
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